The effect of single-detector CT versus MDCT on clinical outcomes in patients with suspected acute pulmonary embolism and negative results on CT pulmonary angiography

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 184, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1231-1234

  Prologo, John David ^a   Gilkeson, Robert C ^a   Diaz, Mireya ^a   Cummings, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE DETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; ADOLESCENT; ANGIOGRAPHY; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; IOHEXOL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANTICOAGULANTS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; IOHEXOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 18244396626     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.184.4.01841231     Document Type: Article

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